Police: Passenger dies in crash, wreckage not discovered for hours

A 21-year-old East Greenville man died after a crash early Sunday morning in a car that partially submerged in a creek for nearly 10 hours.

Around 10:45 a.m. Sunday, Douglass Township police said an unidentified person came upon the wreckage of a car found on its roof in the Perkiomen Creek in the 200 block of Papermill Road.

Etinyene Usoro, 21, was a passenger in the vehicle and died as a result of the crash, police said.

The driver has been identified as 23-year-old Howard Christy, of East Greenville. Christy was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital and his condition was not immediately available.

Police said they believed the crash happened about 1 a.m. Sunday. The car failed to negotiate a curve in the road and drove off the right shoulder of the road. The car then went off an embankment and dropped 13 feet to the west branch of the creek.

Police said they are still investigating other details about the crash.